SAUMU JUMANNE, Dar es Salaam: Some of the key fundamental prerequisites to success in business are creativity and flexibility. Creative entrepreneurs always keep their eye open for any unmet need because to them, this becomes a business opportunity they can exploit to their advantage. Indeed businesses exist because people have needs and wants that have to be satisfied in…
Dar es Salaam, 25th March 2012: MUVEK Development Solutions has organised a two-day event to launch Research Into Use (RIU) Programme knowledge outputs. The outputs will be launched by Prime Minister Honarable Mizengo Pinda on Wednesday 28th March 2012. The knowledge outputs are lessons and recommendations from implementing the RIU Programme in Tanzania between June 2008 and June 2011….
Waziri wa Maliasili na Utalii, Mhe. Ezekiel M. Maige (MB) kwa Mamlaka aliyonayo amewateua wajumbe watano kuunda Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya Bodi ya Utalii (TTB) kuanzia tarehe 23 Machi, 2012. Uteuzi huo unafuatia Mhe. Rais Jakaya M. Kikwete kumteua Balozi Charles A. Sanga kuwa Mwenyekiti wa Bodi ya TTB mapema wiki hii. Walioteuliwa kuwa Wakurugenzi wa Bodi hiyo itakayodumu…
London, UK: Next week, an independent commission of scientific leaders from thirteen countries will deliver a detailed set of recommendations to policymakers on how to achieve food security in the face of climate change. In its report, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes specific policy responses to the global challenge of feeding a world confronted by…
London, 21 March 2012 The Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards are once again attracting high-quality entries from around the world and 2012 promises to be another influential showcase for the best business journalism from and about Africa. All journalists, writers, reporters and media houses are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. In order to provide every opportunity for…
YAKOBE CHIWAMBO: RUSSIANS are among the potential investors identified to boost the country\’s Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First) Initiative. Industries and Trade Minister Mary Nagu said Russia had advanced in science and technology and machinery and this is what is required to boost agriculture as well as agro-business. “If we collaborate well with Russians the Kilimo Kwanza Initiative will succeed….
A new report released by the Earth Security Initiative puts the question of arable land at the center of a new security agenda. The risks to national economies, political stability and social cohesion, it argues, must now be acknowledged and dealt with. As the interest in farmland and commodities investments accelerates over the next decade, a new risk management…
By Byase Luteke, Dar es Salaam: There’s a general notion that cheap things quite often end up being expensive. I’ll expound on this belief. We’re always cautioned, for instance, by the Tanzania Bureau of Standards not to buy cheap items like motor vehicle spares, tyres, drugs, and other consumables you can think of, because pocket-friendly as they may be,…
By Enock Nyorekwa Twinoburyo, Ugandan based Economist: With proven reserves of 2.5 billion barrels of oil so far confirmed in the Albertine Rift exploration areas, Uganda could be the nextimportant oil producer in Africa. The discovery could elevate Ugandafrom a low income country to a lower middle income country within thenext 25 years making Uganda more of an independent…
By Bob Wekesa, is a journalist studying international communication at theCommunication University of China in Beijing. ****************************************** Historically it was the Arabs who not only made the earliest contactwith Africa but actually eventually became part of Africa’s diverseracial and ethnic mix. Then followed the Portuguese and Spaniards atthe height of their naval power. After the scramble and partition ofAfrica…